The Mechanics of Modernity in Europe and East Asia: Institutional Origins of Social Change and StagnationWhy, from the eighteenth century onwards, did some countries embark on a path of sustained economic growth, while others stagnated? This text looks at the kind of institutions that are required in order for change to take place, and Ringmar concludes that for sustained development to be possible, change must be institutionalized. Taking a global view, Ringmar investigates the implications of his conclusion on issues facing the developing world today. |
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Institutions provide rituals with which people can identify and through which they can be identified. In addition, there are procedures for how social esteem is to be awarded and structures that encourage people to exert themselves and ...
Institutions provide rituals with which people can identify and through which they can be identified. In addition, there are procedures for how social esteem is to be awarded and structures that encourage people to exert themselves and ...
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According to this view, functions can legitimately be identified as causes.15 The existence of marriage could, for example, be explained as a result of the social needs it fulfils or a religious ritual could be explained as a result of ...
According to this view, functions can legitimately be identified as causes.15 The existence of marriage could, for example, be explained as a result of the social needs it fulfils or a religious ritual could be explained as a result of ...
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It is thus the existence of marriage that creates social needs rather than the other way around, and the existence of rituals that creates religious needs. Similarly, since the queen is there, various functions are invented to keep her ...
It is thus the existence of marriage that creates social needs rather than the other way around, and the existence of rituals that creates religious needs. Similarly, since the queen is there, various functions are invented to keep her ...
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| Title | The Mechanics of Modernity in Europe and East Asia: Institutional Origins of Social Change and Stagnation Routledge Explorations in Economic History |
| Author | Erik Ringmar |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2004 |
| ISBN | 1134292635, 9781134292639 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development Business & Economics / Economics / General Business & Economics / Economics / Theory Business & Economics / General Business & Economics / International / Economics & Trade |
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